WEBVTT E WOMAN SEVERAL TIMES.>> ANNOUNCER:>> INSIDE NEW BERLIN'S RIDGECINEMA, IT WAS A REAL LIFEHORROR FOR A 24-YEAR-OLDEMPLOYEE.SHE HAS AUTISM AND ISDEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED, ANDPROSECUTORS SAY DIDN'T KNOW HOWTO RESPOND WHEN 72-YEAR-OLDHUMBERTO PANIAGUA BEFRIENDEDHER, AND OVER TIME, REPEATEDLYGROPED HER AT THE THEATER WHILESHE WORKED12 NEWS HAS OBTAINED THE VIDEOPOLICE SAY VERIFIES PANIAGUA'SASSAULTS.HE CAN BE SEEN HERE GRABBING HERAND KISSING HER.IT GOES MUCH FURTHER, BUT WE'RENOT SHOWING IT.MUCH OF THE ASSAULT HAPPENS INTHE OPEN NEAR THE SODAFOUNTAINS, OTHERS EVEN MOREGRAPHIC IN THE DARK OF THETHEATER, WHERE THE WOMAN WOULDLATER TELL POLICE SHE DIDN'TSCREAM BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANTTO DISTURB MOVIEGOERS.HER FATHER SAYS SHE FUNCTIONS ATTHE LEVEL OF A 10 TO12-YEAR-OLINVESTIGATORS SAY HE WOULDTRAVEL FROM THIS HOME HERE INFOND DU LAC COUNTY MORE THAN 50MILES TO THE MOVIE THEATER INNEW BERLIN SEVERAL TIMES AMONTH.ALL OF THE ASSAULTS CAPTURED ONVIDEO ARE FROM LAST OCTOBER.IN THE FINAL ONE, THE VICTIM'SMANAGER SPOTTED THE YOUNG WOMANBEING GROPED, AND CONFRONTEDPANIAGUA, KICKING HIM OUT OF THETHEATER AND REPORTING IT TOPOLICE.ACCORDING TO THE COMPLAINT, WHENPOLICE CONFRONTED PANIAGUA, HESAID, "OH, YEAH, I UNDERSTAND."IN NEW BERLIN, NICK BOHR, WISN12 NEWS.PATRICK: POLICE ARRESTEDPANIAGUA, BUT RELEASED HIM WHILETHEIR INVESTIGATION CONTINUED.THERE IS A WARRANT OUT FOR HIMTONIGHT.IF CONVICTED OF ALL CHARGES, HEFACES UP TO 160 YEARS IN PRISON.IN A STATEMENT, MARCUS THEATERTELLS 12 NEWS "THIS WAS TRULY ANUNFORTUNATE INCIDENT AND WE

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Updated: 7:17 PM CDT Mar 30, 2017

Humberto Paniagua, 72, drove over 50 miles to a New Berlin theater where the 24-year-old girl worked.